skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There aren't enough competent people around, and even fewer who prefer the same workflow as the original author.

What really happens if you open up the code base: Mediocre people who want something for their resume flock to it, work on unimportant issues, add bloat, CoCs and generally make your life hell.
> there seems to be no discussion about the company’s fundamentals, it seems to be all about bankrupting hedge funds. That makes no sense to me. Am I being naive here?

The official punchline is "buy high, sell never". A short seller's deepest nightmare is a trader that is behaving extremely irrationally by holding a failing asset and never selling it. You cannot screw such a retail trader by being faster because being slow is the entire point.

>And in the final analysis, it seems to me like the bigger driver of GME’s stock was not retail redditors, but companies like Vanguard etc. So, this isnt even a David Goliath situation. Some billionaires lost their shirt, and other billionaires made a shit load of money. This is like David standing up to Goliath, until Davids dad comes in and gives Goliath a proper ass whooping. Is this what happened?

Everyone knows that those who will make the biggest gains are those who bought GME when it was in the single digits. Nobody else expects to get rich off of the short squeeze.

The irony is that short sellers think that this will be a temporary squeeze and thus all they have to do is short even more and sell the inflated stock to cover their interest and just wait out until all their shorts are in the money again. The problem with this strategy is that you are betting against irrational traders who have zero intention of selling, ever.

It's pure entertainment value.
I think there's plenty of reason to be concerned, but certainly not enough to be terrified or overreact with comments like "this comment is offensive".
Security professionals often warn against Telegram
> dislikes driven by social media posts

(Disclosure: I live outside the USA, I'm not politically active, I have no horse in this race)

It's clear from the way that many people write that if "their side" is doing something it's almost certainly the best of reasons and if "the other side" is doing something it's for the worst of reasons.

From the HN guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

How can we reintroduce good faith into everyone's interactions with the political class? Right now it seems it's perfectly OK to assume the worst possible interpretation of anything a politician says*

When did the world get like this? How do we fix it?

* if s/he isn't from your party. If s/he is from your party, of course you assume the best interpretation.
So is any group of people, including hedge funds and the government as we've seen over and over and over again.
I mean, GME has value because it is shorted so much. The goal of WSB is to go for a short squeeze (when the short positions have to be closed to avoid going bankrupt, the stock price goes up). In that regard I'd consider bitcoin to have less "value", as its price is mostly based on hype, and it doesn't really have any practical uses.
The stockmarkets aspire to be more than a casino and actually a way for people to invest money and productive enterprises to raise it. If you want a casino try crypto.
I 100% agree with this. I apologize for reading too much into it and my brash behavior. Leaving it up there for posterity.
Not OP, but here are the (non-license-based) problems I see with open contribution.

1. It limits tight design. PRs are often going to be for things that the user wants but that aren't on your design plan. Accepting these PRs causes design creep and leads to code complexity, even if each individual PR is written well.

2. It takes time to review PRs. People submit all sorts of code of various quality. Doing several rounds of reviews to get a PR up to snuff (or decide to reject it) takes time out of your day. If your team is small, this is a major cost.

3. It can set the wrong expectations. People get mad when their PR is rejected. Often really mad. Closing 50% of PRs, even for totally valid reasons, ends up with a nontrivial number of people sending you really terrible emails calling you nasty things.
Andy Warhol was surely some kind of marketing genius.
Is this legal? Or is it a case of the eventual SEC fine will be a much smaller problem for them than upsetting whoever asked them to do this?
Violence against whom and how? Do the powers that rule the USA truly fear any commoners? I doubt it, the rich are ensconced in private jets, mansions, posh offices, and do not interact with commoners, nor are they easily targeted due to lack of proximity and knowledge. It's not like the French Revolution, where the mobs knew precisely where the king, queen, and legislature were, and could assail them personally.
Discussion of original post by ProtonMail, active here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25940566
Tabs, bookmarks and browser history should be merged into a single interface. The difference between them is just quantitative.
I wonder:

- I read many complaints about QtWebEngine. Is there still no good alternative to this? In general, when you want to embed a browser in some GUI app. There have been lots of attempts to solve this in the past. But it seems like this is not really solved. And making this cross platform makes it more difficult, obviously. I thought now that we have Electron, this should maybe be easier? (I remember, on Windows, it was quite easy to embed an IE browser component in your app, even in the 90s. And this worked well. Only problem was that it was IE, and Windows-only.)

- You could go the other way around, and write an extension for an existing browser (Chrome, Firefox). There are also already a couple of such extensions which have similar goals as this project (keyboard-focused, minimal GUI). Why is this also suboptimal, or why does this not work as well? Why is the approach by qutebrowser better? (Some comments here seem to suggest that.)

Both approaches seem suboptimal somehow.
only somebody with a ridiculously thin skin...

People like that are very common and often very vocal.
Might as well try to hold water in a sieve. What are they gonna do, charge tens of thousands of people?
I've never known a civilian carry a hammer or seat belt cutter. Do you? I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to do that.
> friend of a friend

there is no proof that this connection exists
IANAL so all that goes with that, and I am assuming you are in the U.S. This is based on my own experience running consulting firms and having done a lot of freelance. First, there are a number of templates you can find on the internet. I purchased an MSA and RSA from a reputable source and then had an attorney review it and make a few modifications for my specific needs. Total cost was < $300 for the templates and the attorney review.

A few things to pay attention too: First figure out if you need a Master Services Agreement or a Retained Services Agreement or both, the terms between them are different and will result in different levels of protection etc. That said, a lot of terms are common between them (and most contracts honestly) and you need boiler plate for them: for example Warranty (never give one), non-exclusivity, intellectual property transfer, confidentiality, travel expenses, incidental expenses, payment terms, confidential information, public domain, disclosure, publicity, termination & breach, severability, notifications, force majeure, dispute resolution, change request and governing law etc. I listed out the common ones, and if your contract doesn't cover at least those you don't have a complete contract. The short form contract I have covers all these plus a few more and is 2 pages long, the long form is 5-6 pages long (more details for larger value contracts, or more complex situations). Work is generally spelled out in a separate addendum, e.g. a Statement of Work (SOW), which lets you keep adding new SOW without resigning a new contract if you put everything together correctly.

So as you evaluate contracts make sure you look for things that cover you, honestly almost every section I listed you can read in plain english and it makes sense, warranty is really important so is IP transfer and payment obviously. All these interlink in ways to protect you and to protect the client from you being a douche which is only fair.
No, I don't like seeing winners and losers in the market. I like to see winners, it's not a zero sum game.

There are no divisions on this board, everyone is against the Power that is being exhibited right now. TD, Interactive Brokers and Robinhood have bent the knee to enrich the rich at the expense of many.
Are you normally supposed to have those things in your car?
So organized capital was all about free markets and small government, until organized people took it on.

Chamath Palihapitiya of Social Capital is becoming one of my heroes, LOL. Last year he criticized the trillion dollar bailouts of Wall Street, now he comes on to defend the right of retail investors to share information publicly and coordinate a short squeeze against overleveraged short positions by shadowy hedge funds.

When organized people take on organized capital, we get this kind of situation where the organized capital tries to call for government to add additional rules to protect their existing ways of making money. What happened to wanting a free market and less regulation? What happened to welcoming innovation?

Technology empowers people and unites communities. Sometimes those communities can start to organize in new ways. That’s why we started Qbix.com and Intercoin.org - to build the tools for them to do so, without relying on the Big Tech oligopoly.

The future is decentralized. You can’t keep shutting down people’s speech on platforms. And here we are shutting down people’s transactions. Even if you don’t like what they are doing or saying.
Asking the maintainer if you are allowed to provide a fix is an option?

Open pull requests are better than no pull requests. If the maintainers don't want them merged to their code base, other users can still merge them to their base.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6plv0/robi... (unless I misunderstood something)
I don't think that expressing my opinion is an overreaction. It's offensive to minimize what happened on January 6th. That's what you do when you mock the notion that the president incited violence.
How could that possibly work, ever? If RH can stop me from making a trade they deem bad, why don't they just trade on my behalf? This is nonsense. Any pretense of caring for their users could be faked by simply putting a banner up on the forbidden securities. They do not care one iota beyond being able to generate fodder for the hedge funds who pay their bills.
Well in this case I think the gamblers are going to take all their business elsewhere if the casino doesn't change its ways.
Ask HN: How to find production-ready open source projects to learn from?
I have been trying to find open source production-use projects to learn backend architecture. I did find a analytics startup called posthog, where I learnt about django use in a real world product. Is there a website which lists these out by lang and domain (backend api, system application, frontend etc.). I did try github explore and search, it's not really useful. And google just shows beginner level blogs about these.
Very cool. If someone is looking for a device with even better battery life: I created something similar -- albeit with a different approach to its visual appearance.

See: https://framelabs.eu/en/
Yeah you wouldn't want this to happen in the CyberTruck!
Depends on how much work they put in, doesn't it?
there is a tab tree extension for firefox that is kinda popular. I like the concept (often I want to follow a bunch of links out of the same page without losing my place), but I found the sidebar implementation clunky.
I'm curious why people are so tender to the capital riots and not to the Chaz "autonomous zone" and the riots, continued even to this day, by BLM and Antifa. Is there a distinction I'm not getting here?
Having empathy means feeling sorry and sad for the person you see currently trapped in the burning car.
That has been a barrier to us switching to Cognito. It'd save us a ton of money. Been asking AWS to support cross region replication for years now.
There's no public pressure to do that, the only pressure is from Wall Street itself. The public is cheering the whole thing.
Gotcha. We are thinking about that. Please reach out to us and let's talk about it: jaastech@8x8.com
Eh, that blatant offensive nature is a 4chan holdover, which WSB proudly embraces. Plenty of millennials are former /b/ browsers, now in their 30s and some with plenty of disposable income.

I've struggled with this in some friend groups, particularly after having a child diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.
It was obvious, the real customer of Robihood are hedge found for their front-running business. They protect interest of hedge founds.
On the topic of overengineering: My modern sensibilities mean that I'm always surprised that toilets and taps work when there's no electricity.

Most of what was once a "trivial" design decision has become computer-controlled beyond recognition.
I really don't get why everybody is so upset. The stock market is a private company. If you don't like it just make your own financial system.

/s
Well, Johannesburg could probably play the medieval murder league on the expected level.
I think archiving stops anyone pushing to a repo at all, but an option to label a repo as a mirror (and thereby block pull requests on GitHub) would be perfect for me - it pretty much exactly describes the situation for my GitHub repos. Your post implies this option exists, but I can't find it in the interface - am I missing something obvious?
What SEC thinks of this GameStop madness? Is this normal market activity or pump and dump scheme? They only said they are monitoring ongoing market volatility. [1]

I didn't research this whole situation a lot but I know brick and mortar game selling is almost dead and everything moved online especially to Steam which basically has monopoly on digital online video games selling.

I don't agree with Chamath when he said paraphrasing this is the move against financial establishment, this is the result of transparent and open stock market research. For me this is public and collective pump and dump scheme.

The narrative of going against current financial establishment is the same one that motivated criminals and drug sellers to embrace Bitcoin because they thought it was meant to be anonymous and anarchist but in reality it was meant to be everything opposite; to establish decentralized trust, transparency, enable micro transactions and to eradicate fraud and financial mischief.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/joint-statement-on...
FWIW, Robinhood posted a statement on their blog[1].

Two snippets:

>In light of recent volatility, we are restricting transactions for certain securities to position closing only, including $AMC, $BB, $BBBY, $EXPR, $GME, $KOSS, $NAKD and $NOK.

Also:

>We fundamentally believe that everyone should have access to financial markets.

Cognitive dissonance to the hilt :)

[1]https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-customers-...
> Am I missing anything?

In order to keep the IP for a project pristine (for the sake of downstream users), I would prefer never to see somebody else's copyrighted solution to a problem. If I see their contribution but I don't want to accept it, I'm forced to come up with a new creative solution that a court would (maybe, hopefully) consider original.

This is especially important for CC0/public-domain projects, where many contributors will not fully understand the implications of contributing and may not be in a position to release code into the public domain.
You are free to disbelieve the answer, but it still stands.
More people need to get into or at least learn about ham radio for this reason. Modern telecommunications is a gross abstraction, and is taken for granted.
Losses on short positions in U.S. firms top $70B – Ortex data
What kind of joke brokerage would do this? Closing my account ASAP
Wow, that's very impressive for a one-man-project. If the author is reading this, can you describe the background to this software, why you started writing it, and how it's been going?
It's one of the things:

1. SEC is protecting the little guy and being paternalistic

2. Institutional collusion

However, 1. could be likely because this GME frenzy is reducing confidence in the overall market. S&P500 lost 100 pts this week. By stifling buys, they
> Banning collecting rain water on your own property

What does that refer to?
Dogecoin subreddit may get banned too. Saw elsewhere that they're trying to push it to $1 (it's at $0.01 and the push has raised it 72%). Half tempted to drop $1k in it, in a Just-In-Case thing. Supposedly the total volume of Dogecoin is only 128k coins, though that sounds low. If it is that low it explains why the coin is so volatile. My main cryptocurrency positions are Bitcoin and Cardano.
You know, one day this sort of thing will happen to you or someone or something you care about, and you will instantly be enlightened on the dangers of unchecked power.
Assuming Executive Position
Citadel securities is the market maker that pays for order flow, Citadel is the hedge fund that lent 2 billion to melvin capital. Definitely smells like some backroom don't bite the hand that feeds you.
a t-shirt about the product they sell or the nuclear bombproof ecommerce infrastructure they created on a Pentium 1?
Is there a way to persist the name, color across sessions.
I'd love to be able to open all the bookmarks in a folder and then have them assigned to the same group/color. Then that way I can recreate one of a handful of different multi-tab environments at the start of each session.
If the bunch of the little guys invested each just few hundred, it is not that a big loss. So if they end up holding the bag, it will be distributed among big crowd, where each member would be missing just a little.

Of course, if someone went above that and invested an amount, where losing it would hurt, that's different.
There’s nothing illegal about buying a stock, or even voicing your opinion about a stock.

If only value investing was legal, the stock market look and operate very differently to today.

Edited to add: ultimately the law should be there to prevent fraud, not to restrict capital ownership and financial autonomy to a handful of cronies. You know, what they call a free market.

Incidentally, if this had been a properly regulated market to begin with, the price inflation would not have been possible.
You assume the person was able to attempt to escape. It said they survived the crash, but they could have been incapacitated.
Its called "RedPilling".
To be honest, I much prefer the French government's way, where they are transitioning to Matrix and running their own server.
That way they aren't beholden to any organization other than themselves.

In general I think it would be great if the EU made it a directive* to national governments to prefer open source.

Imagine, a world where the entire EU runs on an EU-customized version of Ubuntu/Fedora, office work being done in Libreoffice, messaging done in Matrix. The support contracts would run in the hundreds of millions and be a huge boost to the improvement of said software. Not to mention some internal IT teams would probably be contributing patches for their specific use cases and bugs.

* I am aware the EU has relatively little power to enforce such a thing.
That's a pretty reductive assessment of what happened here. A system that requires you to remember to buy a window hammer on the off chance the doors don't open is a system that has failed. We expect cars to have thousands of other safety features — we don't bring our own seatbelts in case the ones in the cars fail, and we don't wear helmets in case the airbags fail to deploy.
I'm still shit at these things, but so far, I seriously cannot understand how hedge funds get away with "shorting", but people doing the same thing in reverse is market manipulation. From this (admittedly naive) POV, this sounds like double standards.
Victim blaming here isn't really very helpful. Cars should be designed with an eye towards how they perform in an emergency. There is a reasonable case that Tesla didn't do that. As an owner of a Model 3 now, it is concerning to me how I would get out of the car if the electrics fail as exiting requires a button press controlled by a computer.

Most people don't have a hammer / seat belt cutter. It is not a required piece of equipment. People aren't trained in its use. There is no expectation that a standard driver (at least in the US) should be able to use this tool. This is Tesla's issue, not the drivers.
I do agree with you when it comes to the surface level idea of buying a particular stock. However, the fight here isnt about that. This is a fight between the public mixed with low level capitalist (sub 8 digit yearly earnings) and the billionaire well... oligarchy of hedge funds. The hedge funds are putting pressure on gov and media to stop allowing the general public from doing something. This was originally a fight to screw over a hedge fund that was picking on Gamestop to bankrupt them through predatory short selling. Its blown up to now the hedge funds trying to manipulate public discourse, media discourse and the public's ability to participate in the market. Originally, capitalism is about anyone has the ability to participate in business and the market equally, regardless of their family lineage or social class. Obviously reality is messier than theory, but you no longer need to have a royal family name to own land or start a business. Hedge funds, banks and others are trying to accomplish the same old, "kiss my ring", just with slightly different tactics.

It's a fun show regardless.
Serious question. Is the whole David vs Goliath narrative unfounded?

Over the last 8-10 years online activism/mobs have increasingly been co-opted by those in power as a means of astroturfing. I think it is totally fair to be skeptical and ask whether that is going on here.

One thing is for sure. Even if this is organic, it won’t be next time. After seeing this why wouldn’t some hedge fund orchestrate something like this to manipulate the market?
If you're able to rally people on social media is that manipulation? I'm not so sure.

I think it's very risky for the investors but I don't know whether the SEC has stuff that would cover this.

And even if there were a law, if you somehow have your thumb on the social media hype button then how would you enforce that law? Makes me think nothing unruly is going on, just a bubble that will inevitably collapse and make Musk etc. rich once more just like during the dot com era. Some people only know how to make money through theft and I'm not surprised we've found ourselves here after the last 4 years.
this story is... wow

> The last time I talked to John, I knew the secret service had been investigating him for months and that he had already left for Syria. Our last chat is surreal to read in hindsight; I come off as extremely nonchalant at his mention of Syria. I remember trying hard to stay cool and play it off, fearful of John’s wrath should he come back—after all, he knew where my family lived and my little sister was still at home.
No it's complete nonsense apart from public transport vehicles like buses where passengers are kind of expected to be able to find and use window hammers in case of emergency.